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For the life of me I can't figure out why the title of this movie wasn't "I was a Teenage Dracula". It was made by the same studio, American International Pictures, that created the wonderful teen 50's horror movies "I was a Teenage Werewolf" and "I was a Teenage Frankenstein".

Sandra Harrison plays Nancy Perkins, a young woman who is dumped off at a boarding school for girls by her inattentive father who has remarried a young blonde gold digger just six weeks after his first wife's death. Needless to say, Nancy is not happy about this situation at all and she has a lot of anger about having to leave her previous school and her boyfriend, Glen.

Louise Lewis portrays the controlling science teacher who under hypnosis turns the vulnerable Nancy into a vampire for reasons that I couldn't understand, some bizarre theory about proving how the evil in the human race is stronger than the atom bomb...I didn't get it, but the movie is still a lot of fun. A lot of the comments here seem to hint at a lesbian relationship between the crazy science teacher and some of her students, but I didn't see that at all.

This movie is typical of it's time in the fact that it has to have a really corny "rock and roll" number and this one, "Puppy Love" has to be heard to be believed. It has to be a joke, I don't think anybody can listen to it without laughing, it's that bad.

I love all of American International Pictures 1950's horror movies, but I can honestly say that this one is my favorite, even though it is not as well known. If you haven't seen this one, check it out. There is creepy vampire make up, two killings in a spooky old cemetery and the corny "Puppy Love" song and dance number. You'll enjoy it!!!

I agree with some of the other reviewers about the title of this film. If you're going to make a "Dracula" movie without the character of Dracula and with a teenager (or young adult) in the title role, then why not just call it "I Was a Teenage Dracula"? Particularly if the writer is the same man who co-wrote "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" and "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein" and the director was also at the helm of "Teenage Frankenstein."

The plot is quite similar to that of "Teenage Werewolf." Troubled teen is transformed into monster by mad doctor using hypnosis. I first saw this movie the year it was released. I thought it was very scary and the vampire make-up was pretty cool. After seeing it again years later on television from the perspective of a middle-aged man rather than a ten-year-old boy, it seemed less scary than before but I still thought Sandra Harrison looked pretty cool as the vampire. If you enjoyed American International's other teenage monsters, then check this one out if you can find it.

Fairly amusing film about a girl in a reform school who's hypnotically turned into a vampire and sets out to kill a few classmates. Interestingly, this film reverses many horror movie cliches by making the young attractive heroine the monster herself. Some imaginative sequences, hokey dialogue with pretty good photography. Not as good as the more famous "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" or the much better "How to Make a Monster", but well worth watching for fans of drive in fun.

In BLOOD OF DRACULA, Nancy Perkins (Sandra Harrison) is dropped off at her new boarding school by her father and his new wife. While Nancy is busy settling in, she is unaware that science teacher, Miss Branding is working on a bizarre experiment. She's also looking for a human subject, someone who has Nancy's rather explosive temperament! Mad science and the occult merge, resulting in horror beyond all measure!

Sort of.

This movie is another lump of Limburger from AIP distribution. Much like THE SHE-CREATURE or VOODOO WOMAN, it's a story about the unleashing of the savage side of female human nature, and the hideous consequences thereof. The title comes into play in an absurd, non sequitur way.

As cinematic nonsense goes, this example is quite enjoyable. Just wait until you see Nancy's toothy transformation scene!

WARNING: This movie contains the song "Puppy Love"...

1957's "Blood of Dracula" from AIP producer Herman Cohen cashed in on the success of Michael Landon's "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" with a simple gender reversal of both Landon and Universal's "The Mad Ghoul." Previous credits at Realart (Lon Chaney's "The Bushwhackers" and "Battles of Chief Pontiac," plus "Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla"), Allied Artists ("Target Earth"), and United Artists (Abbott and Costello's "Dance With Me, Henry") led to Cohen's arrival at American International, where the youthful slant on a supernatural favorite led to a similar double bill pairing this picture with "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein," shot a month later. It's a shame that Cohen decided to use this title since there is no Dracula, it's not "Dracula's Daughter" nor even a male vampire; instead of a mad scientist using a moody teenager for experiments on regression (Bridey Murphy again), we have a female chemistry teacher taking advantage of a troubled girl student. Louise Lewis had played the school principal in "Teenage Werewolf" (as well as an unbilled part in John Beal's "The Vampire"), here second billed as Miss Branding, whose fanatical thesis has rightly been rejected by the male dominated scientific community, that each individual has a greater capacity for destruction than any 'A' bomb if the right techniques are used. Enter Nancy Perkins (Sandra Harrison), latest arrival at the Sherwood boarding school for girls, still grieving for the mother who died only six weeks before, and dismissive of her father's sudden decision to remarry. She is not as short tempered as Michael Landon's character, quite a sympathetic figure, especially after the other girls in her dormitory trample over her the first night. Nancy is bright and quick to be accepted (she chose not to snitch), but under the hypnotic influence of Miss Branding undergoes a physical transformation and incurable thirst for blood. The old bat brandishes an amulet from the Carpathian Mountains, which can either heal or destroy depending on its use, and guess which one is selected? The result is a wild hairy creature with pointed ears similar to Max Schreck's "Nosferatu," certainly making for a decent poster. Luckily, the lone male victim (Jerry Blaine from "Teenage Werewolf") is the dimwit who belts out the picture's embarrassing teen dance number, while the perfunctory police investigation only eats up time and goes nowhere, the one officer who suggests a vampire on the loose rapidly denounced as a crackpot (we at least get a mention of Transylvania). Despite Sandra Harrison's affecting performance she never went on to any prominence, director Herbert L. Strock asserting that the actress already considered herself a star. Among the cops we see Malcolm Atterbury (back from "Teenage Werewolf") and Richard Devon ("The Undead," "War of the Satellites"), but the picture is half over before the first killing, with little enough action as it is, one other attack claiming two victims before the predictable climax. One gorgeous student who disappears all too quickly is raven haired Barbara Wilson, soon to star in "Terror in the Midnight Sun," later reworked by director Jerry Warren into the John Carradine vehicle "Invasion of the Animal People," who also supplied the memorable opening sequence of Martin Kosleck's "The Flesh Eaters."

Nancy (Sandra Harrison) is an angry young girl who's sent, against her will, to a private boarding school. There she falls under the eye of the science teacher (Louise Lewis) who needs her anger to show how anger can control the world, not weapons. (No, I don't understand it either) She hypnotizes Nancy and, somehow, can turn her into a vampire who attacks and kills...

As you can see this is pretty silly stuff. The plot makes no sense with plot holes left and right. The acting is OK (Lewis come off best) and, like other AIP pictures, the film comes to a screeching halt when some guy named Tab (Jerry Blaine) sings some dumb song called "Puppy Love". The "dancing" in this one has to be seen to be believed. The only somewhat interesting thing in this is an(implied) lesbian link between Harrison and Lewis.

This gets a 2 only because of the makeup job done on Harrison when she becomes a vampire. Pointed ears and eyes, hysterically long fangs and claws and a white streak running through her hair! Supposedly Harrison begged producer Herman Cohen for this role--he said, after she got it, she acted like Joan Crawford! Also, many years later, this was shown at the NY Museum of Modern Art--Harrison actually called them and asked them to please not show it. That should tell you something. B-movie fans and kids might like this but others beware!

I haven't seen this movie in at least 25 years but I still remember how fun it was to watch. The headmistress of this school for girls, takes an interest in one the girls and starts to give her private lessons. First she hypnotizes the girl with a big brooch that she always wears and then somehow turns her into a blood sucking vampire! I'm sure she must whip up some instant vampire potion along the way. It's great fun but it's not one of those movies that are so bad, they're good, this is pretty good and entertaining. It's along the lines of "I Was A Teenage Werewolve." Some creepy music, but no real scary moments. Just a fun 1950's drive-in double feature flick.

One thing I will say about Blood Of Dracula. It revives the tradition that was reserved for B westerns in that the title has nothing to do with the famous Transylvanian Vampire Count. Other than to say that the murders committed in this film are said to be Dracula like, Dracula has nothing to do with the film. I guess American International Pictures thought that the count's name would bring in some box office.

Well if you're expecting Bela Lugosi or Christopher Lee pass this right on by. This concerns some chilling murders that occur in and around Mary Adams's school for girls. In this case we have a woman mad scientist in Louise Lewis and she's conducting experiments involving an impressionable young teen played by Sandra Harrison. A little hypnosis and Harrison reverts to the primitive which includes turning into a girl werewolf replete with fangs and sucking the blood dry out of those she kills. It's all a puzzle to the homicide cop Malcolm Atterbury.

In the worst of science fiction films the scientist is always saying that this is all for the benefit of humankind. Even female scientists are saying that. How turning a young teen girl into a primitive homicidal maniac is beyond me.

This film is one camp hoot with cheap cinematography, no production values and players delivering their lines in anticipation of their checks clearing. Let's hope they got paid for this drivel.

With all due respect to the other comments, I have seen and enjoyed this film for many years; originally in l958. Like most AIP pics of the time, for me, they were well produced and surprisingly, well acted. Yes, it does resemble another great cult classic film, I was a Teen-Age Werewolf' a silly title,for what is a very good movie, given Micheal Landon at the start of his career. "Blood of Dracula" has some good horror vets, Malcolm Atterbury, Louise Lewis and Richard Devon. I never saw a hint of 'lesbianism' just a very con- trolling Doctor/scientist, and I find the song "Puppy" love rather corny, but cute. These movies relied on atmosphere and imagination, unlike today's gore, blood and guts, I say to 'each his own'I just don't like to see these movies 'belittled' when they do have, and merit artistic talent.

Blood of Dracula was one of my most memorable horror movies mostly because it centers on a female monster for a change.Louise Lewis is great as the mad teacher who tries to prove her theory.The makeup on the monster is a riot.It is the usual teenage horror movie with a few songs thrown in for fun.This film is typical 1950,s.Check out the ending when student-monster finally turns against teacher.It is one of the funniest,most entertaining scenes in the movie.

3/10 is my rating for "forgettable" and "lackluster" movies. They're not depressing enough to be lower, but can't be higher than 3/10.

That's what this monster movie is. It's mostly disjointed and confusing. So confusing, in fact, that we have to remind ourselves that the monster is a vampire.

A tough girl is admitted to an all girl school, where the bullies find she fits in quite well, and where a lunatic woman on the staff turns this girl into a monster that turns off and on, more like the werewolf than the vampire.

Pretty corny, and kind of dull, to be honest.

Despite the title and the image IMDb is currently posting along with this movie, this is really not a Dracula film and Christopher Lee is not in it. Instead, it's a very, very low-budget and dopey movie about a girls school where a rather bizarre relationship develops between a crazy teacher and an impressionable student. It turns out that this teacher has some bizarre masters thesis involving,...well, I really have no idea what it was about and her turning this female student into a part-time vampire made absolutely no sense. The teacher said something about doing this will "save mankind" and other crap like that, but how could turning a girl into something that looks like the love child of Lily Munster and Nosferatu help mankind--especially when it starts sucking the blood out of people??!! Oddly, although the film was made in the more conservative 1950s, there is a very strong and noticeable undercurrent of Lesbianism. There is a strong sexual chemistry between the female teacher and her female student. This makes the film a real curio, but unfortunately the plot, acting and direction are all very amateurish and it is not a film I would recommend to anyone but bad movie fans. Strictly grade-Z all the way and a not particularly good variation on I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF.

There is a sort of dance party, that's fun as are some of the usual "innocent" 50's kids talking crazy stuff. But most of these elements, though they add a bit of charm, can be found in much more entertaining movies. It's just that so little happens, it's like a film made years earlier. Should have really been called Teenage Vampire or something of the sort, but wow it's pretty dull.

Concept is fun but the "terror" is so far from center stage. Decently produced but an off day for the creative staff--feels like everyone went home early no matter how short the shoot was.

You'll need lots of strong 1950's coffee to get through this one even at the scant running time it feels padded. Twilight Zone length would have helped, though those episodes probably had the same budget as this feature.

If you like 50's American horror stuff, and I do, then you'll sit through it and be amused mostly by the dancing and the hypnotic and vampire ideas that aren't really worked out or shown much at all. For those who want to say they have seen everything, for the rest...well...

Herbert L. Strock directed this film, another hybrid horror and juvenile delinquency yarn that stars Sandra Harrison as Nancy Perkins, a troubled teenager who is sent to live in an all-girl boarding school by her parents. She then meets evil Miss Branding(played by Louise Lewis) a professor who uses hypnosis and a medallion(Dracula's?) to control her, which results in Nancy becoming a murderous(and ugly) vampire, terrorizing the campus, and some visiting boyfriends of the girls... Silly film with a vague plot has no originality at all, and few scares, though the makeup is striking. Part of the "Teenage" monster fad of this time.

A teenage girl, bit of a rebel, is sent away to a girls school. Her fiery nature brings her to the attention of the science teacher, who, using a Carpathian amulet, uses the girl for nefarious deeds.

OK! You understand why plenty of folk love the cruddy schlockers of the 50s (I love me plenty as well), the films that were the bottom half of a bottom of the barrel drive-in double bill. Quite often there's a charm to be found, even some that genuinely have craft, guile and surprise enough to warrant love and affection. Blood of Dracula (AKA: Blood Is My Heritage) is devoid of charm and doesn't work hard to earn support.

As has been pointed out by the horror faithful over the years, there is no blood and no Dracula in this film - though Dracula as plural does get a mention during one of the many many long and dull passages of chatter within. The narrative plods along until angry girl meets angry science teacher and it's hypnotism time! Yay. Enter a creature that looks like Eddie Munster with bad teeth. All violent damage is done off screen, an interim pop tune and dance sequence is just bizarre, and the plot's motives really don't make any sense.

Herman Cohen (producer) was not dumb. I Was a Teenage Werewolf and I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, the two other films in this schlocky trilogy, are good fun. He was capable of overseeing some good movies pitched at a teen audience - even having something to say about the youth/adult divide. Sadly his vampire excursion is not only lazy, it's also very dull. 2/10

Mr. Paul Perkins (Thomas B. Henry) marries Mrs. Doris Perkins (Jeanne Dean) six weeks after the death of Mrs. Perkins and brings his teenage daughter Nancy Perkins (Sandra Harrison) to the prominent Sherwood Boarding School for Girls. Nancy is rebel and does not accept the marriage of her father and is welcomed by the principal Mrs. Thorndyke (Mary Adams). In the dormitory, Nancy is bullied by her schoolmates, but she does not snitch them. During the breakfast, the leader Myra (Gail Ganley) invites Nancy to join the girls' club "The Birds of Paradise". Myra is also the assistant of the chemistry teacher Miss Branding (Louise Lewis), who had her thesis about the destruction of the world refused by the scientific community. She wants a new guinea pig to conduct more experiments and Myra suggests Nancy. Soon Miss Branding uses her locket necklace from the Carpathian Mountains to hypnotize Nancy and becomes her master. When the student Nola (Heather Ames) goes to the storage building to bring supplies to the school, Miss Branding hypnotizes Nancy turning her into a vampire in the beginning of a crime spree at the Sherwood School, intriguing the police detectives and doctors.

"Blood of Dracula" (1957) is an entertaining B-movie from the late 50's, with the story of a teenage girl that turns into a vampire through the hypnosis. Her chemistry teacher is the responsible for her changing and murders to prove her thesis about the possibility of destruction of the world without the use of atomic bomb. The argument is funny, but the movie is dated but is not so bad. My vote is six.

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The girl is supposed to be possessed by an amulet to turn into a vampire, but she looks like a werewolf, more like someone in a cheap Halloween mask, instead. Started to guess the ending and thought of a better one, too. This part made me laugh the most. No sign of The Count anyplace, no bats, just this female werewolf. Unattractive cast of girl's school students doesn't help much, either. Corny opening reminds me of an old educational film like What Will Larry do Next?

Yes...pretty much. It's very similar to "I Was A Teenage Werewolf." The real differences are that the protagonist is a female and of course the monster is a vampire instead of a werewolf. It's got pretty much the same ingredients: Teens, bad rock songs ( I personally think the songs are great ),hypnotism, monsters. Features a great opening scene and a cool graveyard attack set. I don't understand why this film is often pushed aside and seldom mentioned. Maybe it just needed to be called "I Was a Teenage Vampire." I think the atmosphere is pretty solid and I enjoy this picture enough to rate it an 8...yes an 8. Check it out.

Blood Of Dracula is a typical of the drive-ins that Americain International came out with in the 1950's, aimed at teenagers. I quite liked this one.

After her mum dies and dad remarries, a girl is sent to a boarding school where she is hypnotised by one of her teachers as part of an ongoing experiment connected to the supernatural. This turns her into a fanged vampire and she kills several people. The police are baffled by these murders and when she refuses to look at her teacher at the end, tragedy strikes... Includes somebody singing Puppy Love.

Blood of Dracula has some creepy music and creepy locations as well, especially the night scenes. The vampire make-up looks pretty good for a low budget movie.

The cast is mostly made up of unknowns, lead by Sandra Harrison, her only movie according to IMDb.

Blood Of Dracula is a must for B-movie followers out there.

Rating: 3 stars out of 5.